EXCLUSIVE: The true-crime docuseries are coming thick and fast for ABC News Studios.
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Julia MacCary editor Emmy-winning journalist Kelley L. Carter has signed a multi-year deal with ABC, elevating the ESPN Andscape senior entertainment reporter to a new role as entertainment reporter for all shows under the ABC and ABC News umbrella, including “Good Morning America,” “GMA3” and “ABC News Live.” In addition to her new duties, Carter will continue her work at ESPN Andscape — a media platform dedicated to creating, highlighting, and uplifting the diverse stories of Black identity — where she currently hosts the celebrity interview series “Another Act.” Recent guests include Queen Latifah, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Viola Davis, Zoe Saldaña and Keke Palmer. She also interviewed the creators and the original Broadway production of “Hamilton” in the special program “Hamilton In-Depth with Kelley Carter,” which coincided with the premiere of Hamilton on Disney+.
“I’m really excited to continue with Andscape,” Carter tells Variety. “It feels like we are still just in the beginning of this beautiful partnership — because we are! I’m also thrilled to formalize my relationship with ABC News as an entertainment contributor. I truly work with some amazing colleagues and am blessed to have continuous opportunities within the ABC news family where I learn and grow.” Carter is a regular on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “Nightline” and “GMA3” and will contribute to “GMA’s” five-hour, live Academy Awards pre-show on March 12. In addition to her work as a journalist, Carter is currently developing the half-hour comedy series “New Money” with Gabrielle Union and Jemele Hill for Showtime and Sony Pictures Television. She also recently served as executive producer for “Three Ways,” which is now streaming on Hulu. In 2008, Carter
EXCLUSIVE: The true-crime docuseries are coming thick and fast for ABC News Studios.
Kyle Richards’ ongoing family feud with big sister Kathy Hilton has prevented her from meeting her great nephew.
Still waiting. Kyle Richards revealed she has not yet met Paris Hilton‘s newborn son.
Kathy Hilton is living the grandma life! On Sunday, the star shared how life has been since her oldest daughter, Paris Hilton, welcomed her baby boy, Phoenix. «Oh my God, he's an angel,» Kathy told ET's Denny Directo during Sunday night's Oscars party. «You know what, I just walk right in and storm right into the nursery and pick him up, and he's so sweet.»Kathy Hilton attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.Paris and Carter, both 42, announced that they welcomed their baby boy via surrogate in January. Last month, the couple shared the first images of little Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum with the world, during a sweet photo shoot with .Following her son's birth, Paris said that she and Carter decided to make a pact to keep their baby boy's birth a secret from their families, and enjoy the first week with him together. «I just feel that my life has been so public, and I’ve never really had anything just be mine,» Paris said on her podcast.
Kyle Richards is putting rumors about her marriage to rest.ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke to star at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars viewing party Sunday night, where she said she's «not losing any sleep» over internet rumblings on the status of her relationship with husband, Mauricio Umansky.«The analyzing of everything is so — we were just talking about that in the car. I'm seen out at the gym without a ring on, or the rumors about weight loss.
his mother doubled down on claims her son may have been murdered.“Many factors discussed with the police and coroner do not add up to [a] simple overdose,” the child star’s fiancée told The Sun. “I want to know what really happened so I can focus on raising our son Prince without constantly losing sleep on what happened to his father every night.” Carter was found dead in the bathtub of his California home on Nov.
Vanessa Hudgens, Lilly Singh and Ashley Graham have been tapped to host Countdown to the Oscars, the official lead-in to the 95th Oscars, on ABC. The pre-show will air Sunday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. PDT on ABC.
reported in January 2021 that his series under the deal, “Redeemer,” which had “True Detective” Season 1 star Matthew McConaughey attached to star, was no longer moving forward.After creating HBO’s “True Detective,” Pizzolatto remains credited as an executive producer for the fourth season, which has been titled “True Detective: Night Country” and will premiere this year with stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis acting as the leading detective duo.
BreAnna Bell Polaris, the television network and digital platform owned by radio personality Sway Calloway and Rahman J. Dukes, is partnering with Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG) free-streaming digital platform, HBCU GO in an exclusive deal to create content for the video on demand service as well as AMG’s other properties including The Grio. The programming will be focused on culture, music and news with special coverage around cultural moments including a special celebrating the 50th year anniversary of Hip Hop, and an investigative series around Jam Master Jay. “It’s important for us to showcase not only the amazing sports and news programming, but also the heartbeat of the HBCU and Black Experience – our culture,” said Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group. “This new partnership with Polaris will provide amazing programming for our HBCU GO and TheGrio audiences highlighting music, Black culture and more.”
A mysterious sea creature which looked like the Loch Ness Monster has been spotted off the Somerset coast - almost 600 miles from her 'home' in the Highlands. Visitors in Clevedon rushed to take photographs of the ‘creature’ that was spotted bobbing in the water right next to the town’s Victoria Pier.
Paris Hilton is discussing motherhood… And what’s (hopefully) coming next!
One big happy family. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, have built quite the family over the course of their decades-long marriage.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Costume designer Ruth E. Carter dedicated her NAACP Image Award win to the late Chadwick Boseman during a luncheon and fashion show, held in honor of the 54th annual awards on Thursday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles. As Carter took to the runway to accept her trophy for outstanding costume design on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” she used her speech to remembered Boseman, who died in 2020. “It was because of him that we came together and we mourned. We celebrated his life,” Carter told the crowd assembled on the L.A. Live event deck. “We all have him to thank for the motivation, not only of ‘Wakanda Forever,’ but also for the first ‘Black Panther.'”
Nick Carter's ongoing legal battle rages on as Shannon Ruth — one of the women who accused the singer of sexual battery — is now filing to dismiss a countersuit Carter filed against her earlier this month.In December, Ruth sued Carter for sexual battery over an alleged February 2001 incident she claims happened when she was 17. In response, Carter filed a counterclaim earlier this month against Ruth — as well as two other accusers — for $2.3 million, claiming these individuals have been trying to extort money from him for years.On Wednesday, Ruth filed an Anti-SLAPP motion with the court in Clark County, Nevada, seeking to have Carter's countersuit dismissed.«Carter’s Counterclaim is clearly intended for no other purpose than to harass, intimate, and potentially silence [Ruth],» the motion, obtained by ET on Thursday, claims.
Emily Longeretta With “When Calls the Heart” at Hallmark and “When Hope Calls” at Great American Family, Brian Bird is expanding his success with a partnership with UPtv. True Brand Entertainment, founded by Bird, Brandon Clark, Tai Truesdell and Darin Chavez, and the network have a multi-picture licensing agreement, creating a series of uplifting and values-friendly romantic comedies. The partnership began with “The Engagement Plot,” starring Trevor Donovan and Rachel Boston, which debuted in summer 2022 to record-breaking ratings for UPtv and its streaming service, UP Faith & Family. “The Happy Camper,” starring real-life married couple Daniela Bobadilla and Beau Wirick, premiered to strong ratings on February 5.
Paris Hilton and Carter Reum's love story continues to get more and more adorable as they settle into life not only as a happily married couple but also as parents to an adorable baby boy.After knowing each other for years, reconnecting, falling back into love and finally tying the knot, the pair's romance has been something of a winding road to lead to where they are today.So how did their love story begin, and how has it unfolded over the course of their friendship? ET is taking a look back at Paris and Carter's romance saga with a relationship timeline.A post shared by Paris Hilton (@parishilton)More than a year after she called off her previous engagement to Chris Zylka, Paris apparently was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner by friend Halle Hammond, who happens to be Carter's sister. Paris later explained that she'd known Carter for 15 years, but then reconnected at this dinner party, and shortly after, they went on their first date.Paris and Carter were first romantically linked in the press in January at the Golden Globes afterparty.
Goldston said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to work with this brilliant group to create premium content based on the most compelling true-life stories.” The launch of Goldston’s new non-fiction division is the latest in a series of initiatives driving Candle Media’s growth, beginning with the acquisitions of Hello Sunshine and Moonbug Entertainment in 2021, followed by eight additional acquisitions in the company’s first 12 months of operations. Candle has close to 1,000 employees, with offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, Nashville, Montreal, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, and Singapore. “We have known James for many years, through our collective time together at Disney,” Mayer and Staggs added.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Former ABC News president James Goldston is joining Candle Media, founded and led by ex-Disney execs Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, to head a new division focused on TV shows and movies based on true stories. Goldston will serve as president of the new division, which will produce scripted and nonscripted features and series “inspired by true stories,” according to Candle. Goldston spent 18 years at ABC News, including seven years as president, before exiting in 2021. overseeing all aspects of America’s number one news division, including #1 rated “Good Morning America” and “World News with David Muir.” He also led ABC News into the streaming era with a series of successful podcast and documentary projects for Hulu and Disney+, including “The Dropout,” produced by Rebecca Jarvis and her team, which became a successful podcast, documentary and Emmy-award winning scripted series for Hulu, and John’s Ridley’s “Let it Fall,” a duPont-Columbia Award-winning documentary on the LA riots. His teams have won five Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence, and numerous other prestigious honors in journalism, including a Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and Emmy awards.
Former ABC News Chief James Goldston has joined Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media to head up a new division focused on scripted and non-scripted features and series inspired by true stories. Goldston will serve as President of the new group.
EastEnders actress Kellie Bright has given her verdict on the mystery murder plot that has captivated viewers since airing on Monday night (February 20). The actress, who portrays Linda Carter in the BBC soap, joined Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning to give her view on the much anticipated twist.